The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career.